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Face the facts people, there is no life on Mars
The Telegraph ^ | 07/24/2015 | Michael Hanlon

Posted on 07/31/2015 11:20:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Suddenly, space is getting interesting again. After decades of going boldly nowhere in low Earth orbit, Man, or rather his robotic emissaries, have made some startling discoveries in our Solar System.

Cold, distant Pluto is – who would have thought it? – turning out to be one of the most interesting planets (yes, it is a planet) in the Solar System. Before the New Horizons probe turned up earlier this month, astronomers assumed it would be a dull, grey cratered rock.

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If we find life of any kind out there – whether it be Martian microbes (we have several probes prodding the Martian surface and observing it from orbit) or a signal from super-intelligent (or even mildly brainy) aliens – it will change everything. ET will force us to confront a deep truth; that humans are not the only game in town, that we live in a possibly crowded (and quite probably threatening) universe.

But here’s the thing. What if they don’t find anything? What if, 10 years, a 100 years, a 1,000 years hence, endless sky-surveys, proddings and pokings of Mars and elsewhere, turn up nothing, save rocks, gas, ice and vacuum. We had better be prepared for this because, I am beginning to believe, this seems to be the most likely result.

ET should be out there. As the physicist Enrico Fermi famously pointed out more than 60 years ago, in a universe of great antiquity and size such as ours, there ought to be many, many civilisations in space, some of which will be far in advance of our own. It is, he said, a paradox that we have not seen any evidence of this.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: alienlife; dunce; enricofermi; mars; michaelhanlon; newhorizons; ntsa; pluto; solarsystem
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1 posted on 07/31/2015 11:20:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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The 'Happy Face Crater' that was captured in a wide-angle image recorded in 1999 by Mars Global Surveyor's camera
2 posted on 07/31/2015 11:21:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Then who built the canals and sculpted the face?????

I guess that if Mars doesn't have any microbes, then we'll never have intelligent life in the solar system....

3 posted on 07/31/2015 11:22:42 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The heart on Pluto was made by mictobes. Prove me wrong.


4 posted on 07/31/2015 11:23:37 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: SeekAndFind

The crater is winking at us


5 posted on 07/31/2015 11:23:45 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wouldn’t be so sure.

Compared to lo info voters, current Mars IQ may be orders of magnitude higher.

That’s why demos want to go to Mars: for new, more intelligent voters.


6 posted on 07/31/2015 11:24:22 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Face the facts people, there is no life on Mars"

That's what They want you to think, man!

7 posted on 07/31/2015 11:24:33 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is that a zit or a piercing by the nose?


8 posted on 07/31/2015 11:24:38 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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"Life" on other planets may not look like life on Earth, or at least the life we think of. There are subterranean microbes that oxidize iron instead of oxygen. There are microbes that thrive in oceanic volcano vents.

Just because we don't find ET doesn't mean there isn't life.

9 posted on 07/31/2015 11:25:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (To defeat the democRATs, we must first defeat the Republicans.)
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No paradox. The universe is what it is. It’s we who don’t know it enough to come to any useful conclusions about it, and whether there is life elsewhere.

I am of the opinion that there is life elsewhere, and that there is very little chance that we will find any sign of it for the next few hundred years or so.


10 posted on 07/31/2015 11:28:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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11 posted on 07/31/2015 11:28:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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There is so life on Mars. What about “Marvin”? I saw him on the Bugs Bunny Show! Now, tell me that’s not true!


12 posted on 07/31/2015 11:30:39 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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ROTFL!
GMTA!
13 posted on 07/31/2015 11:31:29 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SeekAndFind

My prediction, where there is liquid water there’s life.

Question for Mars is was there life when it had liquid water?


14 posted on 07/31/2015 11:34:44 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: SeekAndFind

Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned Martian SUVs.

Martian womyn and minorities were hardest hit.


15 posted on 07/31/2015 11:35:06 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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Damn, they're everywhere...................

16 posted on 07/31/2015 11:38:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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The best bet for Mars is to crash it into Venus. The resulting planet would be much closer to Earth in mass, and possibly even able to generate a convection magnetic field like Earth. Then add a bunch of water and you’re getting somewhere.


17 posted on 07/31/2015 11:40:01 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Red Badger

all your planets are belong to us?


18 posted on 07/31/2015 11:41:24 AM PDT by brivette (lol~)
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and at the lowest possible cost!...............


19 posted on 07/31/2015 11:44:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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Looks like a nosering to me... ;)


20 posted on 07/31/2015 11:45:24 AM PDT by BigEdLB (They need to target the 'Ministry of Virtue' which has nothing to do with virtue.)
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